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Matched in a pitching duel with Jim Doole of Dartmouth, Johnny Knowles turned in a sparkling, five-hit performance at Hanover, Saturday, but it all went for naught as the Crimson batters failed to drive a tally across the platter and went down to defeat...
...Year for Oaters. The first Successful storytelling movie made in the U.S., The Great Train Robbery (1903) was what the trade calls an oater-a Western. David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, which at $6,000,000 will outcost any other film ever made, is essentially another oater. Inspired less by Duel than by the end of war and the insatiable appetite for action, the major studios are this year spending some $20,000,000 on "class" oaters...
David O. Selznick was bombarding U.S. cinemaddicts with ads about a movie they would not see for some five months, based on a book that few had read, about a subject (the Wild West) ordinarily reserved for B or C pictures. Reason for the early build-up of Duel in the Sun: to help pay the most colossal production-promotion costs in cinema history ($5,069,000 to date...
...solution of ephedrine. Sprayed up horse's nostrils, ephedrine acts within 15 minutes and the effect lasts for about two hours. Jockey Club snoopers first seized and analyzed a nearly empty bottle found in one of Smith's stalls. Then on Nov. 1, just after his Magnific Duel won at Jamaica, inspectors broke into the stall and caught the training staff with the goods-ephedrine in atomizers...
...Reported the hastily proofread New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The state chemist . . . reported traces of ephedrine in the saliva test taken from Mrs. Elizabeth [Arden] Graham." In fact, Magnific Duel's saliva test was negative...